EA announces "a new multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to develop and
publish globally new games based on Star Wars characters and storylines." The
announcement has comments from EA Labels President Frank Gibeau, as does a new
blog update on the topic on
EA
News, neither of which disclose the financial terms of the agreement. Here's
what the announcement says about the deal: "Here's what this covers: "Under the
agreement, EA will develop and publish new Star Wars titles for a core gaming
audience, spanning all interactive platforms and the most popular game genres,
while Disney will retain certain rights to develop new titles within the mobile,
social, tablet and online game categories." Here's Frank Gibeau's outline of
their general plans:

The EA Studios that will develop these games are
some of the most innovative and popular creative teams in the world, and include
DICE and Visceral, in addition to the BioWare team, which is already developing
for the Star Wars franchise. These imaginative teams will make games that may
borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories.
Powering it all will be the Frostbite 3 development engine – guaranteeing
incredible graphic fidelity, environments and characters.

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Krovven wrote on May 6, 2013, 22:21:Give me a good Outlaws remake, sequel or prequel and I'll forgive EA for everything else, temporarily at least.

Unlikely as this is a Star Wars deal, but I don't care if I never see another IP from LucasArts if I can get a new Outlaws game.

LucasArts is dead (literally, Disney shut it down), so I doubt you'll be seeing anything from them ever again.

I'm not sure why people are up in arms about this news. LucasArts hadn't made anything good since the 90's. Bioware is responsible for one of the best SW games out there (KOTOR). DICE could do great things with the Battlefront IP. Not sure what Visceral would do. A horror SW game could be interesting.

If not EA, who else? Ubisoft? Activision? Actually, Raven made some of the best SW games too (Jedi Outcast & Academy), so that could be interesting. That said, Activision also has the worst history when it comes to licensed games.